Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Given where you sit and the kinds of customers you work with, if you were to step up from your micro viewpoint and look at the macro picture, where are the open problems? What kind of areas do you recommend entrepreneurs to look at? Sid Banerjee: We see customers continuing to look at

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Building an App Platform Company from the Netherlands: Mendix CEO Derek Roos (Part 7)

Sramana: You have a strong company with roots in the Netherlands. If you started looking for companies to acquire, would you find anything of interest in the Netherlands? Derek Roos: Possibly. We are not in a mode to do acquisitions, but there is a lot of talent and some very creative companies in Amsterdam. I

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Which customers are you solving this problem for? Are you selling to the enterprise? Constantin Delivanis: Yes, Fortune 5000. SM: Take us through some use cases on how this trend and this technology are playing out.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: In other words, you have identified a specific usage of words and expressions, whether it is in chat or social media. You see certain types of expressions and you have been able to algorithmically qualify that in order to predict certain behavior. Sid Banerjee: Yes and no. We do that in run time.

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Building an App Platform Company from the Netherlands: Mendix CEO Derek Roos (Part 6)

Sramana: What other strategic decisions were made in the process of penetrating the US market? Derek Roos: One of my priorities after moving to the States was to build out a senior, experienced, management team. Before we made the move it was me and my founding partners. We were young, first time executives and we

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 1)

Constantin Delivanis is the chief executive officer of BDNA, a leading company in DaaS (data as a service). Constantin holds an MS from Stanford University and a BS from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. He is a serial entrepreneur and has been CEO of several successful companies prior to BDNA. In this interview he talks

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about the data sources? You said CRM is one of the sources. What about social media data? Sid Banerjee: Social media is a very big part of our picture. The majority of our customers are using social media. One thing that is different at Clarabridge from traditional social media and

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Building an App Platform Company from the Netherlands: Mendix CEO Derek Roos (Part 5)

Sramana: What was your pricing model prior to the shift into SaaS? How did you adjust that model when you moved into SaaS? Derek Roos: Prior to our SaaS model, we sold perpetual licenses for the use of our platform. The price would depend on the number of applications that would be deployed on the

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